Australian1867–1943
Arthur Streeton
An Australian landscape painter and a leading figure of the Heidelberg School, the country's first Impressionists. He made his name with sunlit views of Victoria and Sydney Harbour, worked in London from 1897, served as an official war artist in France in 1918 and was knighted in 1937.
A life in paintings
- 1867Born
- 1886Worked with Tom RobertsMentone, Box Hill and Eaglemont, Victoria
Roberts and his companions found the teenage Streeton painting outdoors on the beach at Mentone in the summer of 1886–87 and brought him into their camps. They painted side by side at Box Hill and then at Eaglemont above Heidelberg, and both showed in the 1889 9 by 5 Impression Exhibition.
Source: Wikipedia - 1888Worked with Charles ConderEaglemont, Heidelberg, Victoria
Streeton and Conder shared the artists' camp at Eaglemont, above Heidelberg, painting the hills and river flats there until both left Melbourne in 1890.
Source: Wikipedia - 1889
- 1943Died
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Exhibition · Buxton's Rooms, Melbourne · 1889
9 by 5 Impression Exhibition (1889)
Held in August 1889 and named for the 9 × 5 inch cigar-box lids most of the works were painted on. Conder designed the catalogue cover.
Group · Melbourne · 1885
Heidelberg School
Australian Impressionists who painted outdoors at artists' camps around Melbourne — Box Hill, Mentone and Eaglemont above Heidelberg — from the mid-1880s.
Where to see them
National Gallery of Australia, Canberra
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